Leadership Program
Participants in the 2024 Latin America and Caribbean Regional Leadership Program work on a group project.
As part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, the regional Tobacco Control Leadership Program aims to develop and enhance leadership in countries experiencing the greatest burden of disease and death from tobacco use by building capacity to develop, implement and enforce effective tobacco control policy interventions. Nominations for participants are recommended by Bloomberg Initiative partners working in the countries.
More than 2,000 professionals have benefitted from this training after the 2006 launch with 20 participants from 10 countries. Country and region-specific tobacco control leadership programs allow for more emphasis on locally relevant tobacco control policy issues, as well as other relevant public health policy issues.
At the completion of this Program, participants have:
- Enhanced leadership and networking skills to advocate for, enact and implement effective policy change;
- An improved ability to apply leadership principles and better utilize tobacco control-related evidence to advance policy development and implementation aimed at resolving country-specific issues and challenges;
- Strengthened skills in strategic communication and policy development and implementation; and,
- Strengthened ties and linkages with international colleagues.
Recent Leadership Programs
Workshop Helps Build Leadership Capacity
A seminar in Washington, D.C. in August 2024 provided participants with training to effectively develop, implement, and enforce effective tobacco control policy interventions in China.
Training Future Leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean
More than 50 tobacco control experts convened at the 2024 Latin America and Caribbean Tobacco Control Leadership Program in Mexico City in late February to grow their influence.
In-Person Programming Returns with Tax Leadership Event
A diverse group of 45 participants from 10 countries came together in August 2023 for critical discussions on tobacco taxation in IGTC's first in-person leadership program since early 2020.